Soda-water-dispensing apparatus.



No. 655,782. Patented Aug. I4, I900.

c. F. KADE.

SODA WATER DISPENSING APPARATUS.

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No. 655,782. Patented Aug. l4, I900.

C. F. KADE. SODA WATER DISPENSING APPARATUS.

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CHARLES F. KADE, or snEBoYeAN,Wisconsin, ASSIGNOR TO ISABELLA FRANCIS KADE AND KATHARINE FRANCIS WINTER, or SAME PLACE.

SODAWVATER-DISPENSING APPARATUS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 655,782, dated August 14, 1900. Application filed April 30, 1898. Serial No. 679,285. (No model.)

To (LZZ whom it lmw concern:

Be it known that I, CHARLES F. KADE, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Sheboygan, in the county .of Sheboygan and State of Wisconsin, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Soda- Water-Dispensing Apparatus; and I do here by declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof.

My invention has for it objects to eheapen ornamental soda-waterdispensing apparatus, increasecooling-space in same, provide for economy of ice, prevent slopping about said apparatus, facilitate access to all parts I 5 thereof, and at the same time afford more than ordinary opportunity for variety of design and ornamentation.

It therefore consists in certain peculiarities of construction and combination of parts here inafter set forth with reference to the accompanying drawings and subsequently claimed, especial attention being called to the fact that the various ice and cooling compartments of the aforesaid apparatus are in communication, so that one air circulation is common to all of said compartments.

Figure 1 of the drawings represents a front elevation of one form of my improved soda- Water-dispensing apparatus, partly broken away and in vertical longitudinal section, the

view being indicated by line 1 l of the succeeding figure, Fig. 2, a plan view of the apparatus, partly in horizontal section; Fig. 3, a transverse sectional view indicated by line 3 3 in the secondfigure, and Fig. 4: asimilar View indicated by line 4 4.- in the first figure.

Referring by letter to the drawings, A represents a main casing or hollow base having its walls, top, and bottom built similar to corresponding parts of a refrigerator. The main casing is partitioned to form a central refrigerator, a pair bf ice-cream compartments, and a pair of coil-compartments, each of the latter being subdivided by horizontal gratings B to provide upper cooling-chambers. The front of the casing is provided with doors for the ice-box and cooling-cham:

ber of the refrigerator, as well as for the icecream compartments and subdivisions of the coil-compartments; The top of the casing constitutes a counter and is provided with lids that close up compartments.

Surmounting the main casing A, at the rear thereof, is another casing O, constituting an ice-chest and syrup-jar holder, the latter being projected toward the front from the ice-chest, and an air-space, portions of the latter casing to overhang the counter-top of the main casing at an elevation sufficient to permit of soda-water glasses being set in under depending exposed faucets of the syrupjars d, the latter being shown as projecting upward through the top of the auxiliary casing and provided with removable covers, although it would be practical to vary the dimensions of parts, so as to have the jar-covers come within said auxiliary casing under a lid, closing an opening in the same.

Draft-arms E, above the top of the main oas- 7o ing, are in pipe connection with the coolingcoils F of the apparatus, and each draft-arm overhangs a drip-cup G, set in the top of said casing. Leadingfrom eachdrip-cupisawastepipe H, that enters a similar pipe L leading from the coil-compartment below said cup, and a waste-pipeJ from the drip-pan K of the ice-chest inthe auxiliary casing O communicates with the waste-pipe L, leading from the drip-pan M of the central refrigerator above So specified, it being intended that the Wastepipes I L shall unite below the bottom of the main casing, through which they extend. B y means of the drip-cups and waste-pipes herein shown the accumulation of Water in or about the apparatusis avoided.

The upper portions of the partitions separating the coil and ice-cream compartments are shown provided with a series of longitudinal apertures, and the partitions between openings to the ice-cream .said icecream compartments and the refrigerator are also shown provided with similar apertures in series. The ice-box of the refrigerator and interior of the auxiliary chamber O are in communication through a flue in the top of the main casing, as clearly shown in Figs. 2 and 4.

From the foregoing it will be understood that all the ice, cooling-chambers, and receptacles of the apparatusare in the same air I00 circulation.

Broken ice is utilized in the coil-compartments and also in the chest in rear of the syrup-jars, but the refrigerator ice-box is supplied with ice in large lumps. The ice-cream tubs and freezers are put in the compart ments designed therefor, and the cold-air circulation throughout the apparatus being equalized there is a very considerable economy of ice, the exhalations from the large lumps in the refrigerator tending to retard the melting of the smaller ice in the coil-compartments, syrup-jar casing, and ice-cream freezer-tubs.

The increase of cooling-space and the coldair circulation throughout the apparatus result in a much lower degree of temperature on the part of materials dispensed therefrom than is experienced with soda-watcr-dispensing apparatuses of the ordinary construction.

On the score of economy the improved apparatus is for the most part of wood, and its design and ornamentation may be indefinitely varied without departure from my invention,

the form herein shown being merely a convenient illustration of my improvements.

Especial attention is called to the provision for housing and cooling the charged watercoils in the apparatus instead of in a cellar below the same and also to the concealment of the ice-cream freezer-tubs in cold-storage compartments.

Owing to the provision for ready access to all compartments of the apparatus, cleaning of the latter is facilitated, and the charged water-coils can be conveniently reached at any time necessity requires. For the reason that there is no slopping about the apparatus and ready access may be had to all parts of the same for cleaning purposes it is more hygienic than those in ordinary use.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

A counter-top casing comprising a refrigerator having an upper ice-compartment and and lower cold-storage compartment, a coil cooling-compartment subdivided by a horizontal grating to provide an upper coolingchamber, an ice-cream-storage compartment in cold-air circulation with said refrigerator and coil cooling-compartment, the several compartments and the cooling-chamber being provided with door-closed openings below the counter-top of the casing and this top provided with lid-covered openings to the icecream storage compartment; an auxiliary refrigerator surmounting the casing in flue connection with the ice-compartment of the refrigerator aforesaid, syrup-jars in an overhang of the auxiliary refrigerator, faucets depending from the jars, and draft-tubes in connection with coils in the aforesaid coolingcompartment.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing I have hereunto set my hand, at Sheboygan, in the county of Sheboygan and State of Wisconsin, in the presence of two witnesses.

v CHARLES R KADE. Witnesses:

FRED H. POETHIG, PETER J. PETERSON. 

